Apples philosophy with UIAlert view is to deliver alerts and offer very limited control. There are many hacks on the internet to add a UITextField subview and use its value. The most effective way I found to do this is as follows: Alright, here's the goods. The first thing that you'll want to do is to alloc your UIAlertView and then initWithTitle:message:delegate:cancelButtonTitle: otherButtonTitles: just like normal. Then with all that good stuff done, you use the method addTextFieldWithValue:label:. The value is for initializing some text into the text field. The label is for setting a placeholder. Here's some example code. Code: UIAlertView *myAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Alert title" message:@"alert message" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil]; [myAlert addTextFieldWithValue:nil label:@" "]; [[myAlert textField] setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentCenter]; [[myAlert textFie...
